The John Batchelor Show

Friday 16 March 2018

Air Date: 
March 16, 2018

Photo: Ruhollah Khomeini and his son Ahmad Khomeini visit the Grand Ayatollah Shariatmadari (center) in his home, 1979.
 
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
 
Hour One
Friday  16 March 2018 / Hour 1, Block A:  Jimmy Carter: The American Presidents Series: The 39th President, 1977-1981;  by Julian E. Zelizer and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
The swamp rabbit: In summer 1979, Jody Powell told a reporter a story: while Carter had been on vacation Iin the spring and fishing in Georgia, a very large swamp rabbit had jumped in the boat and hissed; Carter eventually was obliged to whack the thing with a paddle.  . . .
Friday  16 March 2018 / Hour 1, Block B:  Jimmy Carter: The American Presidents Series: The 39th President, 1977-1981;  by Julian E. Zelizer and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Friday  16 March 2018 / Hour 1, Block C:  Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt; by Robert Gottlieb
Friday  16 March 2018 / Hour 1, Block D:  Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt; by Robert Gottlieb
 
Hour Two
Friday  16 March 2018 / Hour 2, Block A:  The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay; by Jess Bravin
Friday  16 March 2018 / Hour 2, Block B:  The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay; by Jess Bravin
Friday  16 March 2018 / Hour 2, Block C:  Crimes Against Women: Three Tragedies and the Call for Reform in India; by The Staff of The Wall Street JournalPaul Beckett.  The battered baby eventually dies of heart failure. Ancient culture, democracy, Hinduism, spirituality — we think of all these in connection with India, but unhappily must include horrifying treatment of females. 
Friday  16 March 2018 / Hour 2, Block D:  Crimes Against Women: Three Tragedies and the Call for Reform in India; by The Staff of The Wall Street JournalPaul Beckett.
 
Hour Three
Friday  16 March 2018 / Hour 3, Block A:  Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency after 9/11, by Jack Goldsmith.   Federalist Paper 51, Madison. 
Friday  16 March 2018 / Hour 3, Block B:  Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency after 9/11, by Jack Goldsmith
Friday  16 March 2018 / Hour 3, Block C:  The Hoover Institution’s Arctic Security Initiative; Adm. Gary Roughead, USN Ret., former chief of US naval operations and current Robert and Marion Oster Distinguished Military Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
The Hoover Institution’s Arctic Security Initiative Monday, May 6, 2013 / In an ongoing effort to solve the problems of a changing Arctic, the Hoover Institution brought together military, diplomatic, and scientific experts to engage in a series of discussions to address the strategic and security implications of increased activity in the Arctic. This series of discussions and workshops with scholars and experts identified ways in which to shape a safe, secure, and prosperous Arctic.
On Tuesday, April 30, 2013, the Hoover Institution hosted the second in a series of discussions and work groups,  “The Challenges and Opportunities of Arctic Security,” in the Hoover-Brookings Arctic Project. Tuesday’s speakers included George Shultz, the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow; Gary Roughead, Hoover’s Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow and former chief of naval operations; Alaska lieutenant governor Mead Treadwell; James Houck, Distinguished Scholar In Residence at Penn State University; Mark Rosen, vice president and deputy general counsel at the Center for Naval Analysis; Maersk Line, senior vice president  at Limited Steve Carmel; Lawson Brigham, Distinguished Professor of Geography & Arctic Policy at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks; and Tom McDermott, director of research at  Georgia Tech Research Institute; Vice Admiral Paul F. Zukunft, US Coast Guard commander of the Pacific area and defense force west, also attended.
With its changing global climate and its diminishing ice cap, experts are certain that the Arctic will become more accessible in coming years. With new maritime routes, shipping times and costs will be reduced, thus enhancing links between major commercial centers. Competition for fisheries will increase, as will access to vast natural resources. Those factors, combined with economic and geopolitical developments, make the changing Arctic the most significant physical global event since the end of the last Ice Age.
As an unresolved strategic territory the Arctic’s increased activity suggests the region is likely to become the subject of intense negotiations and confrontations over resources, ocean access, and sovereignty. In light of such evolving changes and challenges, the Hoover-Brookings Arctic Project will address the key considerations facing US national security policy and decision makers as those issues relate to the economy, energy policy, and the environment.
The Hoover-Brookings team recognizes that many projects and studies have examined some security, resource, population, and environmental aspects of a changing Arctic. Its aim, however, is to differentiate, highlight, and provide coherent and thoughtful policy recommendations to address the effects and consequences of the changing environment.
As leading public policy research organizations committed to independent, high-quality, and high-impact analysis, the Hoover and Brookings Institutions are committed to the Arctic as an issue of national and international importance.
https://www.hoover.org/news/hoover-institutions-arctic-security-initiative
Adm. Gary Roughead, USN Ret., former chief of US naval operations and current Robert and Marion Oster Distinguished Military Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Friday  16 March 2018 / Hour 3, Block D:  The Hoover Institution’s Arctic Security Initiative; Adm. Gary Roughead, USN Ret., former chief of US naval operations and current Robert and Marion Oster Distinguished Military Fellow at the Hoover Institution.  The Hoover Institution’s Arctic Security Initiative
 
Hour Four
Friday  16 March 2018 / Hour 4, Block A: 
Friday  16 March 2018 / Hour 4, Block B: 
Friday  16 March 2018 / Hour 4, Block C: The Myth of the Great Satan: A New Look at America's Relations with Iran (Hoover Institution Press Publication); by Abbas Milani.
Cyrus Vance did not understand what was happening in Iran; Zbigniew Brzezinski did.
 Sayyid Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari (Azerbaijani: Məhəmməd Kazım Şəriətmədari, Persian: محمد کاظم شریعتمداری‎), also spelled Shariat-Madari (5 January 1905 – 3 April 1986), was an Iranian Grand Ayatollah. He favoured the traditional Shiite practice of keeping clerics away from governmental positions and was a critic of Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini, denouncing the taking hostage of diplomats at the US embassy in Tehran. In 1982 he was accused of being part of a plot to bomb Khomeini's home and to overthrow the Islamic state, and he remained under house arrest until his death in 1986. His followers also opposed Ruhollah Khomeini.
Hussein-Ali Montazeri (24 September 1922– 19 December 2009; Persian: حسینعلی منتظری‎‎,) was an Iranian Shia Islamic theologian, Islamic democracy advocate, writer and human rights activist. He was one of the leaders of the Iranian Revolution in 1979. He was once the designated successor to the revolution's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini, with whom he had a falling-out in 1989 over government policies that Montazeri claimed infringed on people's freedom and denied them their rights. Montazeri spent his later years in Qom, and remained politically influential in Iran, especially to the reformist movement. He was widely known as the most knowledgeable senior Islamic scholar in Iran and a Grand Marja(religious authority) of Shia Islam.
Friday  16 March 2018 / Hour 4, Block D:  The Myth of the Great Satan: A New Look at America's Relations with Iran (Hoover Institution Press Publication); by Abbas Milani.
Cyrus Vance did not understand what was happening in Iran; Zbigniew Brzezinski did.